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and coalescing with a short transverse line of. th3 same colour 



directed towards the outer margin Salitue. 



Elytra with a discoidal yellow line and three narrower ones, 

 and a sub median elongato-quadrate transverse yellow patch 

 on each side Antiokcs. 



Prothorax broad ; elytra quadrate. 



Elytra black, with a narrow white outer margin, six white 

 lines on each side, reaching from the base to the middle, and 

 also an apical patch albolineata. 



Graphipterus grandis, Per., 



Plate VIII., fig. 4. 



Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. vi., 1892, p. 7. 



Head moderately large, covered with greyish-white hairs, leaving 

 in the centre a denuded broad band, somewhat acuminate at the 

 tip ; antennae and palpi totally black ; prothorax twice as broad as 

 long at its widest, with the outer sides subacuminate in the median 

 part, and the anterior angles not projecting much, covered with 

 greyish ochraceous hairs, with a broad black median band ; elytra 

 suborbicular, three times as long as the prothorax with the humeral 

 angles obtuse, covered with light cinnamon hairs, and having a 

 broad black sutural band, slightly acuminate towards the apex, 

 three narrow white bands on each side, the inner two connected at 

 the apex with a wide outer margin, also whitish, and the third one 

 reaching only to about three-fourths of the length, the intervals 

 between the white lines are light cinnamon, turning sometimes to dark 

 brown ; under side and legs piceous, hairless ; abdomen reddish 

 brown. Length 19 mm. ; width 10 mm. 



Hab. Ovampoland. 



Graphipterus cicindeloides, Oliv., 

 Ent., iii., 35, p. 50, pi. 11, fig. 125. 



Black, thickly covered with yellowish-brown short hairs ; antennaB 

 and palpi entirely black ; prothorax a little broader than the head 

 but not longer, cordiform, narrowly denuded in the centre, with the 

 outer margin not serrated, and the yellow tomentum whitening 

 in the anterior angles which are not projecting ; elytra elongato- 

 ovate, with no humeral angle, striate, but the stride are hidden by the 

 yellow hairs which are whitening outwardly, thus forming a narrow, 

 white lateral outer margin ; under side of prothorax and pectus with 

 long, stiff white hairs ; abdomen and legs piceous black. Length 

 19-20 mm. ; width 8^-9^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Fraserburg, Carnarvon, Beaufort West, 

 Bushmanland, Little Namaqualand). 



